Example sentences of "were carry [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spending departments were to carry out reviews of programmes by questioning existing commitments and to ask whether they should exist at all and not only how they should be carried out ( see Pliatzky , 1982 , p. 99 ) . |
| 2 | The various groups who were to carry out raids along the North African coast gathered at Siwa at the beginning of June , aiming to leave for their targets between the 6th and the 8th of the month escorted by LRDG patrols . |
| 3 | Processions were headed by fife and drum , banners proclaimed " bread or blood " , loaves were carried on pikes . |
| 4 | This drop was overcome by means of an inclined plane , up and down which the loaded barges were carried on trolleys . |
| 5 | The bodies of these cars were carried on channel steel underframes and there were steel platform bearers . |
| 6 | There was n't any problem with old Pinkie Blenkinsop , but when the matter came up Trueman refused to give a promise that we could all stay here until we were carried out feet first . |
| 7 | Doctors were carrying out brain scans on Miss Harrison . |
| 8 | Not so long ago , when the US Navy were carrying out exercises in the Sea of Japan an American destroyer banged into , and quite severely damaged , a Russian submarine which was monitoring things a little too closely . ’ |
| 9 | 94 per cent were carrying out research in a university department , 6 per cent were polytechnic students ; |
| 10 | 94 per cent were Carrying out research in a university department . |
| 11 | By the end of the 1980s all the major governments in the West were carrying out reviews and costing of environmental policies . |
| 12 | A recent survey found that only about 60% of district health authorities were carrying out alphafetoprotein tests on all pregnant women in their district . |
| 13 | It was also pointed out that some ACE schemes were carrying out community care projects which in reality meant a cheap community care programme with inexperienced carers . |
| 14 | South Wales Police were carrying out inquiries in the Uplands area of Swansea and checking with hospitals . |
| 15 | To the north the Franks and Lombards threatened , while to the east the Vandals and Huns were carrying out attacks with the violence with which their names are now synonymous . |